Example sentences of "[vb past] wait a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
2 | Apparently , it was while climbing D.P. that he spotted a new line on the buttress , but decided to wait a while and link it with another new route he had in mind for the Central Pillar of Freney . |
3 | But I decided to wait a while before speaking . |
4 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |
5 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
6 | Gedanken had to wait a minute for her eyes to get used to the inky black darkness again . |
7 | Residents had to wait a year before they could put in claims and it 's only now that they 're getting their offers through , based on the district valuer 's assessment of the value of their homes . |
8 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
9 | But he said wait a minute I hear him coming down the stairs . |
10 | Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here . |
11 | Apparently , if I had waited a bit longer prices would have been much higher . |